Compressor



(No Model.)

C. WAKBFIELD.

. COMPRESSOR. No. 349,542. Patented Sept.`21, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

CALEB VAKEFIELD, OF BRADY, .HUNTINGDON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMPRESSOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,542, dated September 21, 1886.

Application filed December 23, 1885. Serial No. 186,532. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALEB WAKEFIELD, a citizen of thel United States, and a,resident of Brady township, in the county of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shock and Sheave Compressors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device for compressing shocks, sheaves, and other bnndles,.for binding them, showing it applied. Fig. 2 is a view of the device detached; and Figs. 3 and 4 are views showing the positions ofthe device before andafter compressing the bundle, the bundle being shown in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theigures.

My invention has relation to devices for compressing shocks, sheaves, or bundles of y handled end of the co1d.j When, now, theV any kind, for the purpose of binding them; and it consists in the improved construction and combination ofparts of the sarne,as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In theaccompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a lever, which is preferably made of metal,and which is provided with a handle,B, at one end. rl`he other end of theleveris formed with a hook, O, having two lips, D D, and the lever is formed near thehooked end with an eye, E. A rope or cord, F, is secured at one end inthis eye, and has a ring, G, at its other end, intowvhich ring an eye, H, at the inner end of a handle, I, is secured. A hook, J, slides with its eye K upon the cord, being contined in its play upon the cord by knots L upon the ord, some distance from the free compressor is to be used, the cord is passed around the bundle until the ring upon the free end of the cord may engage the hook atl the end of thelever, the handle serving to draw the cord around the bundle, and after the ring has been caught over the hook the lever is tilted, drawing the end of the cord which is attached to the eye of the leverv across the free end of the cord/thus tightening the cord around the bundle until the hook upon therope may catch over the lever near the handle, whenit will retain the lever and cord in position, tightened around the lbundle, andcompressing the same, so that it may be bound by anysuitable band.

It will be seen that this compressor may be found veryuseful for compressingshocks of corn, bundles offhay or straw, or sheaves of grain, compressing them to a regular size,- and holding the bundle compressed until the band is applied, or the compressor may be passed arounda bundle and secured around it, when the bundle may be carried with the compressor in position, the handles affording means for grasping the bundle and forzholding it conveniently.

The compressor lnaybermade of any convenient size, according to the use for which it is intended, and the cord may be made of any v length corresponding to the diameter of the bundles to be compressed. Considerable leverage is obtained by this device, the lever having its fulcrum in the ring at the end of the rope, while therend secured to the eye of the lever is draw. ver by the lever being tilted until the hook may engage its endthe hook being attached to the cord and confined upon it by means of the knots at a distance corresponding to the Vdistance from the hooked end of the lever to the handle of the same, it being preferable, for the purpose of' giving the hook the greatest possible holding-power, to have it'engage the lever as near to the handle as possible.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- Y In a shock and sheaf compressor, the combination of` a cord having two knots in its intermediate portion, a ring secured to said cordat one end, and a lever secured intermediate of its length at the other, and a hook upon said cord playing freely between said knots, said ring being provided with a handle, and said lever having two lips at one end, forming a hook, and having a handle-atthe other.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses. l y

. CALEB VAKEFIELD. Witnesses:

BoB-Enr A. ORBIsoN, y

- EDWIN Sco'rr MCQAETHY.

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